Privilege escalation in Red Hat Virtualization - CVE-2017-7536
Published: November 8, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU9130
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7536
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Red Hat Inc.
Affected software:
Red Hat Virtualization
Red Hat Virtualization
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The weakness exists due to the security manager's reflective permissions are granted to Hibernate Validator. A local attacker can allow the calling code to access private members without the permission, validate an invalid instance, access the private member value via ConstraintViolation#getInvalidValue() and gain execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
The weakness exists due to the security manager's reflective permissions are granted to Hibernate Validator. A local attacker can allow the calling code to access private members without the permission, validate an invalid instance, access the private member value via ConstraintViolation#getInvalidValue() and gain execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-7536
Install update from vendor's website.